RE: [WDSCI-L] How to update COBOL outline

["Jon Paris" <Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:24:16 -0600, Kelly Cookson wrote
> Our shop has literally thousands of programs ..... The managerial position 
is basically not to disrupt what is working well for us.

My first thought is why presume it would be disruptive ???

Change = disruption is often followed followed by "status quo = stagnation = 
Microsoft "solution" waiting to happen

If this does not apply to your company I apologize - but I'm a little 
jaundiced right now.  I'm currently working with the fourth company in a row 
that thought RPG/400 was "good enough" for too many years.  As a result they 
are now finding that hordes of Java and .Net programmers are wiping out their 
RPG programming jobs and recoding all the business logic because they had not 
isolated their business processes and could not respond fast enough to 
changing business needs.... 

 
Jon Paris
Partner400
www.Partner400.com
Regards  
> We do use ILE COBOLon rare occasions--for example using an API to generate
> random numbers for a drug testing system. It's even possible we may
> gradually migrate to ILE COBOL, but I'm not holding my breath... :)
> 
> Thanks,
> Kelly
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wdsci-l-bounces+kcookson=dotfoods.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces+kcookson=dotfoods.com@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf 
> Of Jon Paris Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 1:11 PM To: Websphere 
> Development Studio Client for iSeries Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] How to 
> update COBOL outline
> 
> Then I guess you must be using OPM COBOL.  
> 
> Sorry I just kinda assume that everyone is using the latest 
> compiler.  Bad assumption I know but ILE COBOL has been out about 7 
> years now and I haven't
> 
> used OPM COBOL since!
> 
> There's a lot of good stuff in ILE COBOL.  For me it is like RPG/400 
> vs RPG IV - it is no contest.  ILE COBOL is a superset of COBOL/400 
> so I use it for
> 
> all the COBOL stuff I do.
> 
> On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 13:50:21 -0500, MichaelQuigley wrote
> > That's my problem.  There is no 'Refresh button' in the outline 
> > view for   COBOL.   Michael Quigley   Systems-Analyst   The Way 
> International
> 
> Jon Paris
> Partner400
> www.Partner400.com
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